U.s. Protests Over Embassy Shooting

WASHINGTON — The United States issued a strong protest Wednesday to Nicaragua over the shooting and wounding of a Nicaraguan on the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Managua.

The two governments gave sharply differing versions of the Tuesday shooting. The Nicaraguan version was that the man, Roger Kems, 21, had acted deranged and incoherent and scuffled with a Nicaraguan guard.

The State Department said the man came to the embassy, talked to a guard for about an hour, left and tried to return, and then the guard shot him.